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Acquired neurogenic foreign accent syndrome after right-hemisphere lesion with left cerebellar diaschisis: A longitudinal study.

Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 2020
Patients affected by acquired neurogenic foreign accent syndrome (ANFAS) start speaking with a new accent that resembles that of a foreign language. ANFAS has been reported following left-hemisphere damage, but it is extremely rare after right-hemisphere
K. Priftis, Lorella Algeri, L. Barachetti, S. Magnani, Marika Gobbo, Serena de Pellegrin   +5 more
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Is segmental foreign accent perceived categorically?

Speech Communication, 2020
The second language learning process involves acquisition of sounds that differ to varying degrees from the sounds of a learner’s native language. Learners’ productions are strongly influenced by their native language particularly for sounds which are ...
Rubén Pérez Ramón, M. Cooke, M. L. G. Lecumberri   +2 more
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Foreign Accent

2001
Contents: Preface. Preliminaries to Research in Second Language Phonology. Linguistic Explanations for Second Language Phonological Systems. Variation. The Ontogeny Phylogeny Model of Language Acquisition and Change. The Ontogeny Phylogeny Model in Language Contact and Change. Conclusion.
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Listening Effort by Native and Nonnative Listeners Due to Noise, Reverberation, and Talker Foreign Accent During English Speech Perception.

Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose Understanding speech in complex realistic acoustic environments requires effort. In everyday listening situations, speech quality is often degraded due to adverse acoustics, such as excessive background noise level (BNL) and reverberation time ...
Z. Peng, Lily M. Wang
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Foreign Accent Recognition with South Indian Spoken English

IEEE India Conference, 2020
The type of non-native speech is majorly influenced by the mother tongue. A study on Mother Tongue Influence (MTI) on a second language was carried out by employing Native Language Identification (NLI) approach.
G. R. Krishna, R. Krishnan, V. K. Mittal
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[Foreign Accent Syndrome].

Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo, 2021
Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a rare speech disorder characterized by the emergence of a foreign accent. To date, more than a hundred cases of FAS have been reported, and the impression of accent change is regarded to be the result of a combination of segmental deficits (i.e., phonetic distortions and phonemic paraphasias) and supra-segmental ...
Yuichi, Higashiyama, Fumiaki, Tanaka
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Foreign Accent Syndrome

Neuropraxis, 2010
Sommige neurologische aandoeningen spreken zozeer tot de verbeelding dat ze in de krant een eigen leven gaan leiden. Begin 2010 verschenen in onder andere de Daily Mail en De Telegraaf (27 april 2010) artikelen over een 35-jarige vrouw die na een langdurige migraine-aura een tijdje niet kon spreken en uiteindelijk Engels sprak met een accent dat leek ...
Hylco Bouwstra, Fennetta van der Scheer, Emile Keuter   +2 more
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Racializing the problem of and solution to foreign accent in business

Applied Linguistics Review, 2019
Given the desire to attract skilled immigrants to English-speaking countries in the Global North, business environments in these nations may see the increased presence of workers who speak English with a foreign accent.
Vijay A. Ramjattan
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Detecting Foreign Accents in Song

Phonetica, 2019
Abstract This paper presents three experiments exploring the perception and production of accents in song. In a perception experiment, participants listened to passages sung and spoken by native and non-native speakers of English. The participants did better at identifying native speakers when listening to the spoken passages.
Marly, Mageau, Can, Mekik, Ashley, Sokalski, Ida, Toivonen   +3 more
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Differences between foreign accent syndrome and real foreign accents

2011
Foreign accent syndrome FAS) is a motor speech disorder in which patients develop a speech accent which is notably different from their premorbid accent. This paper investigates the perceptual differences between speakers with FAS, speakers with a real foreign accent and a group of control speakers.
Marien, Peter, De Pauw, Guy, Pettinato, M., Hirson, Allen, Jo, Verhoeven   +4 more
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